Okay, here’s my experience figuring out the crown symbol in MLB The Show 24, written in the style you requested:
So, I’m playing MLB The Show 24, cruising through Diamond Dynasty, and I keep seeing this little crown icon next to some players’ names. I’m like, “What the heck is that?” I mean, I’m not totally new to the game, but I hadn’t noticed it before, or maybe I just ignored it. Either way, it was bugging me.
First, I hovered over the crown with my controller. Nothing. No explanation, no pop-up, zip. Okay, game, you wanna play it that way?
Next, I went into the menus. I checked the “controls” section, thinking maybe it was some special input I was missing. Nope. I scrolled through all the game modes, figuring maybe it was specific to one of them. Still nothing.
Feeling a little dumb, I decided to just ask around in the game chat. And this will happen. A lot of times, those guys are all about trash talk. But surprisingly, a couple of folks were helpful. One guy just says, “It’s for captains,” and another chimes in with, “Check the captain screen in DD.”
Captains? Okay, that’s a starting point. So, I backed out of my current game mode and headed to the main Diamond Dynasty menu.
- I found the “Captain” section. It wasn’t super obvious, but it was there.
- I clicked on it, and boom! There it was. The screen explains that you can assign captains to your squad.
- And it says right on the screen.
These captains get special boosts, and other players on your team that meet certain criteria also get boosted.
The crown, see, it shows which players are currently designated as * is really helpful. It’s all about team building and getting those extra stats.
I messed around with assigning different captains, seeing how it affected my lineup. I even noticed some players have captain tiers, meaning they get even better boosts. It’s a whole new layer to the game I hadn’t even explored!

I feel a bit silly for not figuring it out sooner. But hey, that’s how it goes sometimes, even I had a hard time, right? Now I’m all about optimizing my team with captains and hunting down those sweet, sweet stat boosts. And I can go to bed tonight knowing I learned something new!